Chicago Children's Museum | Chicago, Ill.

Step into a room-sized racecourse for toy cars. Climb up
high to release your vehicle and see how far it goes. Send your
wheels for a whirl through the twists and turns of a turnpike. Test
different courses and vehicles to see what makes things move
fast.

Park Ridge Public Library | Park Ridge, Ill.

FREE

The goal is for every young participant is to spend more time in
libraries and see the valuable resources they have to offer, as
well as understand the benefits of reading as a recreational tool.
Wolves players visit the libraries throughout the season and speak
about the important role education plays in their lives as
professional athletes. Today, meet Wolves center Christian
Hanson.

Lake View Nature Center | Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

FREE

This special exhibit features the Apatosaurus, one of the
largest land animals that ever existed. View an Apatosaurus
skull and leg bones, see how you measure up to an Apatosaurus leg
and footprint, touch a fossilized dinosaur bone and coprolite and
more.

Kohl Children's Museum | Glenview, Ill.

A multi-media, interactive, exhibit that allows children to discover how nature is reflected and celebrated in the lives of Japanese children through special seasonal environments and traditional Japanese activities. The exhibit focuses on the regions of Lake Biwa, Sapporo, Kyoto and Fukuoka, offering an in-depth exploration of each region through video, audio and visual media, as well as authentic props and hands-on interactive activities.

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian | Evanston, Ill.

Exhibit looks at the many ways Native Americans tell the history
of their people through visual and oral traditions. It contains
more than sixty artifacts from tribes throughout the United States
and Canada, including an Ojibwe drum, Winnebego jingle dress and
Navajo rug.

Cost: $5, $3 fseniors, students and kids; free museum members and Tribal members

Burpee Museum of Natural History | Rockford, Ill.

Exhibit highlights the evolution, biology and misconceptions of
Megalodon, an enormous prehistoric shark that once cruised all the
world's oceans. The exhibit conveys current research findings of
Florida Museum paleontologists, and showcases both fossil and
modern shark specimens and full-scale models from several
collections.

Field Museum | Chicago, Ill.

Travel back to 1893 and experience the excitement of the White
City. Digital technology will bring the World's Fair to life.
Visitors will see items that thrilled fairgoers 120 years ago
including large taxidermied animals, fully articulated animal
skeletons, and ancient fish from Wyoming's Green River fossil bed.
Using an iPad application, visitors can explore many items from the
World's Fair still hidden in the Museum's vaults and will also get
an overview of the Museum's history and the personalities who
helped shape this institution.

Museum of Science and Industry | Chicago, Ill.

Special exhibit showcases 80 rarely displayed artifacts from the
museum's extensive collection in honor of the museum's 80th
anniversary. These artifacts, carefully selected by MSI curators,
will ignite guests' memories from past exhibits but many will be
revealed for the first time.